GNOME Summary - 2002-01-05 - 2002-01-12

New cool Nautilus functionality from Andy Hertzfeld
Evolution 1.0.1 available
GStreamer 0.3.1 out
GUADEC 3 comes closer
3 GNOME interviews from FOSDEM
Jody Goldberg interviewed about Gnumeric
First release of GNOME C++ bindings for GNOME 2.0 out
GNOME developement information site
GNOME 2.0 status report
Translated GNOME summaries
Hacker Activity
New and Updated Software

1. New cool Nautilus functionality from Andy Hertzfeld

Our favourite living legend Andy Hertzfeld announced that he has added support for viewing newsgroup binaries to gnome-vfs and Nautilus. In his announcement he also details some of the very cool additions he is planing for this feature. Be sure to check out the announcement, and visit the Nautilus nntp page for some nice screenshots and more info.

http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2002-January/006817.html

http://linus.differnet.com/nntp/

2. Evolution 1.0.1 available

The Ximian Evolution team released Evolution 1.0.1 this week. The release contains a impressive list of fixes for tons of obscure bugs, so Evolution should now be ready for those people who somehow manage to get the bugs no-one else gets. The full release announcement and download instructions at the link.

http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/1010867680/index_html

3. GStreamer 0.3.1 out

The GStreamer team made another release this last week with GStreamer 0.3.1 being released. The major focus of the release was various sorts of cleanup and smaller fixes which lead to improved portability, less memory leaks, improved glib2.0 including libxml2.0 support and some nifty new features. Links below to the release notes and the GStreamer homepage.

http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.3.1/notice.php

http://www.gstreamer.net

4. GUADEC 3 comes closer

As you all know by now GUADEC 3 will be April 4- 6th in Seville, Spain. GUADEC is the annual GNOME users and developers conference and having been to the previous one I can tell you that it is great fun, so remember to make room in your schedule and private economy to go this year. The GUADEC team has now bought the guadec.org domain and all information in this and future GUADEC events can from here on be found there. First out on the new website is the Call for Papers. If you want to hold a presentation or do a tutorial you need to send in paper as soon as possible to the organizers. Everything from tree widgets presentations to talks on how to code when drinking lots of Guinness is welcome.

http://www.guadec.org/callforpapers.php

5. 3 GNOME interviews from FOSDEM

Three things at once, is that possible? Well apparently it is, as the FOSDEM organisers have posted three GNOME interviews this week. First out was an interview with Miguel de Icaza focusing on Mono. The second one is with Damien Sandras talking about GNOME Meeting, the very nice video conferencing tool, and also one with Michael Meeks about GNOME 2.0.

http://www.fosdem.org/interviews/1565.html

http://www.fosdem.org/interviews/1579.html

http://www.fosdem.org/interviews/1591.html

6. Jody Goldberg interviewed about Gnumeric

DesktopLinux.com interviewed Jody Goldberg this week about Gnumeric. So if you want to learn more about everyones favourite Spreadsheet now is your chance.

http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3642020036.html

7. First release of GNOME C++ bindings for GNOME 2.0 out

Murray Cumming announced the first release of the gnomemm GNOME2.0 C++ bindings this week. These are C++ bindings for the libgnome* family of libraries. The use GNOME C++ bindings seems to steadily pick up pace with new applications announcements steadily streaming in. Just this week we had three new or updated appliations in the software map using Gtkmm and gnomemm, namely GChemPaint, gbuilder and gabber. With the GNOME 2.0 bindings out it might be a good opportunity to take a new look at gtkmm and gnomemm for C++ developers.

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-January/msg00013.html

http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net

8. GNOME developement information site

The Anjuta hackers have a very nice webpage with information for developers available at lidn.sourceforge.net. The page contains for instance lots of devhelp books for download. If you are doing any GTK+ or GNOME development,be sure to check this site out.

http://lidn.sourceforge.net/

9. GNOME 2.0 status report

Jeff Waugh sent in this little GNOME 2.0 status report for the GNOME Summary:

We're coming up to our first public testing release of user visible goodies, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha. Almost all the components have been ported for this release, so there'll be plenty of bug-fixing, interface-beating, and platform-testing to do before the first Beta.

Some packages are already ready to go for the Alpha release. New developer platform packages are available, whilst Kevin Vandersloot and Jacob Berkman have released the first desktop packages (gnome-applets, gnome-utils and bug-buddy). Binary packagers will benefit from this head start!

Some of the new things you'll see as part of the official desktop release include Procman, a process viewer with a very usable interface by Kevin Vandersloot; Yelp, a very cool help browser by Mikael Hallendal; and of course, anti-aliased font rendering.

Packages are due on Monday, and the release is slated for later in the week.

10. Translated GNOME summaries

As always we have translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know.

http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4

http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/

http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/

11. Hacker Activity

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:

122	gnucash
81	galeon
63	gnome-core
62	gnumeric
55	gtk+
53	evolution
50	gnome-applets
33	gnomeicu
32	gtkmm-root
29	gnome-games
28	web-devel-2
27	gnome-python
26	libgda
26	gnome-libs
26	gimp
25	gnome-i18n
25	nautilus
23	libgnome
22	gtkvts
21	gconf-editor

[137 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:

74	rlb (gnucash)
61	kmaraas
55	menthos
42	michael
39	murrayc
35	owen
34	kevinv
31	rodrigo
31	stano
29	chrisime
27	jbaayen
27	mmclouglin
27	darin
26	andersca
24	dnloreto
23	cstim (gnucash)
23	billh
23	jwise
22	peticolas (gnucash)
22	jpablo

[135 active hackers omitted]

12. New and Updated Software

Glimmer: Very functional all-purpose editor.
Xmms: Multimedia player, features GNOME panel applet.
pjbmanager: Access and control of the HanGo JukeBox.
GStreamer: Multimedia development framework
GChemPaint: 2D chemical structures editor
GTablature: Tablatures (guitar partitions) editor and player
gnome-python: Bindings allowing you to write apps in python.
libglade: Library that allows you to load GLADE interfaces at runtime
gSmbScanner: NetBIOS scanner program
Gabber: Jabber client
gbuilder: Light-weight IDE for C and C++.
Gnome News Applet: GNOME News Applet
Pan: World class Newsgroup newsreader
gLabels: Lightweight program for creating labels and business cards
gael: EDA -Electronic Design Automation tool.
ldif_to_vcard: Netscape LDIF address book files to VCARD format

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3

Another high activity week for GNOME, with many new announcements and of course a lot of behind the scenes GNOME 2.0 work being done. As always don't hesitate to send us submissions for things you want mentioned in the summaries.

Christian

gnome-summary@gnome.org